As part of the IBM Bluemix Continues Delivery functionality toolchains allow the integration of third party and open source tools. One example is the usage of the automation server Jenkins to build and deploy applications rather than using the delivery pipelines provided by IBM. (more…)

Earlier this year IBM introduced a new service DevOps Insights (beta) which helps among other things to reduce deployment risks. Policies can be defined to ensure that unit tests, functional tests and other tests pass before new versions of applications are deployed. (more…)

Last week IBM introduced a new feature in IBM Bluemix. Developers can now easily add API management functionality to their Cloud Foundry apps hosted on Bluemix. (more…)

As part of the Bluemix Continues Delivery functionality toolchains allow the integration of third party and open source tools. Below are two samples how to leverage PagerDuty and Slack to get notifications about state changes in pipelines. (more…)

Last week I attended Pioneers in Vienna, Austria, to present IBM Watson and the IBM Cloud and to talk with developers. Below are some pictures. (more…)

Last week IBM and Google announced Istio, an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. Istio improves the visibility of the data flowing between the different services and the good news for developers is that you don't have to change your code. (more…)

I'm still catching up on all the new functionality that has been added to IBM Bluemix over the last year. One new capability is to use GitLab for source control and lightweight project management. (more…)

In order to do functional end-to-end testing of web applications, Selenium is a great tool to execute automated tests on different browsers. Below is a quick introduction how to run these tests from delivery pipelines in IBM Bluemix. (more…)

I'm catching up with all the great new features that have been added to OpenWhisk over the last months. My colleague Lionel Villard published two articles how to run Node Express web applications in a serverless environment. Very cool. (more…)

Over the last year I've worked on a very interesting internal project. I've learned a lot about conversational experiences and it was a lot of fun. Most importantly I enjoyed working with great people in the Emerging Technologies organization. (more…)